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Workshop

Listening as Documenting

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  • Headshot of an adult woman with light skin tone and shoulder-length brown hair, wearing a black tank top and reclining on a bed. General Title
    claire rousay, Speaker
  • Los Angeles-based composer Lucy Liyou sits in front of a curtain, wearing a long-sleeved blue shirt.
    Lucy Liyou, Moderator
  • Headshot of Jameisha. Brown skin person wearing a black tank top and gray beanie, standing against a blue brick wall.
    Jameisha Prescod
  • Headshot of Tony Nguyen. Asian person with short dark hair wearing a light blue button down shirt, sitting sideways in a black chair.
    Tony Nguyen

When documentary filmmakers seek experimental forms of nonfiction storytelling, we often look to experimental films and moving image work. But there are other forms of documentary practice, such as in music. In this hybrid workshop, artists Claire Rousay and Lucy Liyou will talk through and demonstrate their processes of using field recordings, textural found sounds, and ambient music in world-building. Moderated by Lucy, this hybrid workshop and sound performance encourages us to broaden our expectations of documentary beyond the visual.

This workshop will be free and open to the public.

For online attendance, register here.

ASL interpretation and CART captioning will be provided. For other accommodation requests, please email abby@documentary.org.

About the Getting Real Fellowship

The Getting Real Fellowship seeks to spotlight emerging and mid-career documentary professionals who have inspired visions that will benefit their communities and the field at large. 

After attending Getting Real, the fellows spend the next year programming workshops and discussions inspired by their time at the conference. The Fellowship is supported by the NEA and Golden Globe Foundation.

This event is developed by Getting Real ‘24 Fellows Jameisha Prescod and Tony Nguyen.

Event Participants

    Headshot of an adult woman with light skin tone and shoulder-length brown hair, wearing a black tank top and reclining on a bed. General Title

    claire rousay

    claire rousay is a singular artist, known for challenging conventions in experimental and ambient music forms. rousay masterfully incorporates textural found sounds, sumptuous drones and candid field recordings into music that celebrates the beauty in life’s banalities.

    Los Angeles-based composer Lucy Liyou sits in front of a curtain, wearing a long-sleeved blue shirt.

    Lucy Liyou

    Los Angeles-based composer Lucy Liyou synthesizes field recordings, text-to-speech readings, poetry, and elements from Korean folk opera into sonic narratives that explore the implications of Orientalism and Westernization. Combining disparate sonic elements into critically cohesive pieces, the musical world of Lucy Liyou alternates between beautiful serenity and unsettling entropy. Arresting ballads and contemporary classical pieces fragment into decaying shards, voices get warped beyond recognition, and shimmering light makes way for bit-crushed noise. Her latest record, Dog Dreams (개꿈), is a rumination on the double-sidedness of trauma and love, on how one does not undercut the other, but rather how both are interlocked in an affective dialectic. Liyou’s work has earned acclaim from Pitchfork, The Guardian, Bandcamp Daily, The Quietus, Them, Tone Glow, Wire Magazine, Mixmag Asia, The FADER, and NPR Music, among others, and received notable airplay on NTS Radio, KEXP, NPR, and Sonos Radio’s Radio Hour with Thom Yorke. Liyou has shared the stage with artists like L’Rain, claire rousay, Salamanda, Drew McDowall (Coil), Theodore Cale Shafer, HTRK, Liz Harris (Grouper) and performed on stages such as Cafe OTO, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and Rewire Festival.

    Headshot of Jameisha. Brown skin person wearing a black tank top and gray beanie, standing against a blue brick wall.

    Jameisha Prescod

    Jameisha Prescod is an artist-filmmaker and writer from South London. Their work uses storytelling, moving image and digital technology to seek connections between medicine, disability and Black history.

    As an artist, Jameisha uses their research-based practice as a means of archiving stories about Black-disabled experiences from the past and present by centring voices from people of African descent on the continent and across the diaspora.  

    Jameisha is also the founder and creative director of You Look Okay To Me, the online space for chronic illness. They explore the social and cultural aspects of living with a chronic condition through visual mediums. 

    Jameisha is currently an associate artist at Forma Arts & Media in London and a trustee for London Arts & Health Forum.

    Headshot of Tony Nguyen. Asian person with short dark hair wearing a light blue button down shirt, sitting sideways in a black chair.

    Tony Nguyen

    Tony Nguyen is a Des Moines-born, Dallas-based cultural worker who recruits talent for movement organizations, distributes for Sentient.Art.Film., co-founded the Latin American Film Festival of Dallas, programs for the Austin Asian American Film Festival, operates the digital infrastructure at Viet Film Fest, and founded Spacy, the first ever microcinema in Dallas, TX.